English 1111-Sadlier Vocabulary Units 13-15

(v.) to encourage assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or unworthy)

A: hamper, hinder, impede, frustrate

(v.) to affirm, declare confidently

S: assert, asseverate, avouch

A: deny, disavow, repudiate, disclaim

(adj.) noisy in a coarse, offensive way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in an unfavorable sense

S: flagrant, glaring, egregious, disagreeable, loud

A: inconsequential, trifling, piddling, petty

(v.) to bring up or begin to talk about (a subject); to announce, introduce; to break the surface of the water; to turn sideways to the wind and waves; to pierce ( a keg or cask) in order to draw off liquid; (n.) a spit for roasting; a tool for tapping casks

(v.) to support, prop up, strengthen: (n.) a supporting structure

S: bolster, reinforce, brace, shore up

A: undermine, weaken, impair

(n.) noisy revelry or merrymaking

S: drinking bout, drunken revel, binge

(v.) to compare critically in order to note differences, similarities, etc.: to arrange in order for some specific purpose

S: sort out, cross-check, rearrange

(n.) an expert: one who is well qualified to pass critical judgements, especially in one of the fine arts

S: authority, savant, pundit

A: ignoramus, philistine, yahoo

(adj.) deeply unhappy or dejected; without hope, beyond consolation

S: grief-stricken, inconsolable, comfortless

A: cheerful, blithe, buoyant, jaunty

(v.) to weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc.): to fill up, block up, hinder

S: overload, saddle, hamper, clog

A: unburden, unload, relieve

(v.) to promote trouble or rebellion; to apply warm liquids to, warm

S: instigate, incite, stir up

A: quell, quash, squelch, suppress

(adj.) frightful, horrible, ghastly

S: gruesome, gory, hideous

A: pleasant, delightful, attractive

(adj.) (capital H) relating to Hercules; (lowercase h) characterized by great strength; very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusual strength

S: mighty, powerful, arduous, onerous, colossal

A: puny, LIlliputian, bantam

impassive

(adj.) showing no feeling or emotion; inanimate; motionless

S: emotionless, stoical, unemotional, insensible, dispassionate

A: emotional, passionate, excitable

(adj.) unfavorable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future

S: unpropitious, unpromising, untimely

A: propitious, favorable

adj.) unquestionable, beyond dispute

S: incontestable, indisputable indubitable

A: debatable, dubious, open to question

(adj. part.) puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss

S: perplexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted

A: poised, confident, assured

(adj.) suitable or convenient for a particular purpose; occuring at an appropriate time

S: timely, appropriate, felicitous

A: untimely, inconvenient, inappropriate

(adj.) abundantly productive; abundant, profuse

S: fruitful, fecund, proliferous

A: barren, unproductive, sterile, sparse

(n.) a reply to a reply, especially from the defendant in a legal suit

S: answer, reply, response, riposte, retort

(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible

S: agreeable, compliant, docile

A: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant

(v.) to scold sharply

S: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand

A: praise, compliment, pat on the back

(n.) large-scale slaughter or loss of life

S: butchery, bloodbath, massacre

(adj.) too ready to believe, easily deceived

S: gullible

A: dubious, skeptical

(n.) a rule, test; a standard of judgement or evaluation

S: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon

(v.) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly

S: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt

A: replenish, refill, restock, resupply

(v.) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely

S: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam

A: sketch roughly, summarize, condense, adumbrate

(adj.) coming from the outside, foreign,; present but no essential, irrelevant

S: incidental, extrinsic

A: intrinsic, relevant, pertinent, germane

(n.) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc.

S: commencement, inauguration, outset

A: completion, conclusion, termination

(n.) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)

S: affliction, malady, defect

A: stimulating, mature

(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance, immature, juvenile

S: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish

A: stimulating, mature

(adj.) stubborn, unyielding

S: obstinate, adamant

A: yielding, tractable, flexible

(n.) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent

S: hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley

A: homogenous or uniform group

(adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)

S: forward, gifted, advanced

A: backward, retarded, slow

(adj.) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel

S: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish

A: masochistic, clement, humane, mericful

(adj.) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy

S: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic

A: discursive, diffuse, episodic

(v.) to beg earnestly and humbly

S: plead, petition, implore, entreat

(n.) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust (v.) to feed or supply with anything to excess

S: (n.) excess, glut; (v.) cloy, satiate

A: (n.) dearth, paucity, lack

(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked,; highly involved, complex; devious

S: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine

A: direct, straight, straightforward

(adj.) swollen, blated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language

S: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown

A: muted, understated, unadorned, austere

(n.) a strong defense or protection, a solid wall-like structure for defense

(v.) to provide such defense or protection

S: (n.) stronghold, citadel, bastion, rampart

A: (n.) breach, weak point in the defense

(adj.) easily made angry, bad-tempered

S: irascible, testy, splenetic, bilious

A: affable, genial, even-tempered

(v.) to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner than expected; to reduce

S: limit, abbreviate, abridge, contract

A: protract, extend

(adj.) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood

S: baffling, mysterious, inexplicable

A: intelligible, understandable, fathomable

(adj. adv.) without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily done

(n.) an extemporaneous composition or remark; a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation

S: (adj.) spontaneous, improvised, unrehearsed

A: (adj.) rehearsed, planned, prepared, premeditated

(adj.) excessively and objectionable sentimental; having a mildly sickening flavor

S: sentimentalized, maudlin, mushy, nauseating

A: unsentimental, callous, insensitive

(v.) to soften, make gentle, pacify; to calm, allay (as an emotion), assuage, appease, placate; to reduce in intensity

A: enrage, anger, aggravate, exacerbate

(n.) something that is heavy or burdensome (especially an unwelcome responsibility); a stigma; blame

S: burden, obligation, duty, stigma

(n.) a vague sense of approaching misfortune

S: foreboding, premonition, hunch

(adj.) needed, necessary, regarded as essential or indispensable

S: required, obligatory, incumbent

A: nonessential, superfluous, optional

(adj.) of or pertaining to a tailor or his work; having to do with clothes or dress (especially men’s)

(adj.) conclusive, final, representing the limit of what can be done

S: exhaustive, authoritative

A: tentative, inconclusive

(adj.) firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible

(n.) an extremely hard substance

A: (adj.) yielding, flexible, pliable

(n.) a confused hodgepodge of sounds, hubbub; an uproar or commotion that goes far beyond what is justified

S: furor, hullabaloo, tumult, pandemonium

(v.) to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence, especially in sweet or rich things; to glut, satiate, surfeit

S: stimulate, whet

(n.) courteous yielding to the wishes and ideas of another person; great respect marked by submission, as to a superior

S: respect, consideration, courtesy

A: contempt, disrespect, scorn, disdain

(n.) the way a person behaves, overall impression made by comportment, manner, etc.; facial expression, mien

S: conduct, behavior, bearing, carriage

(adj.) given over to dissipation and self-indulgence. Immoral extravagant

(n.) a person given to self-indulgent and wild spending

S: (adj.) prodiga, improvident; (n.) spendthrift

A: (adj.) penny-pinching, frugal, economical

(v.) to send or hand in (as in money); to cancel (as a penalty of punishment), forgive, pardon; to lessen, diminish; to put off, postpone, defer

S: pay, absolve, subside, abate

(v.) to oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate

S: foil, baffle

A: aid, assist, abet, further